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haha, i think i need a vacation and yes it is a great feeling. my wife thinks i am an idiot for spending all this time on something like this when i can just drive a hard drive over to my parents house.. i told her that isn't the point

funny thing is i am watching these youtube videos doing it and they are only like 3 minutes long, i got about 25 hours into it!

about all i could add to the book is some coloring i just hope neither system goes down because i would hate to have to do it again.

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reinstalled Freenas because i was swapping around hard drives. Decided to delete all files and redo this from scratch. Had it up and running in 5 minutes. Took good notes last time in case this would happen.

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hey guys, one last question. I mentioned this before in this thread but I just did some syncing and i go to delete the files in Windows from the shares and it says something about I don't have the proper permissions. Is there a way to fix this? don't want to start syncing files and have all sorts of different permissions attached to different files.

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I finally moved the Freenas out of the house to my folks house. It worked no problem, just gave the machine a static IP and forwarded the port. The problem is, it is very slow, getting only 1.25 mb/s so a 3.2gb Windows ISO takes about 45 minutes. Any tips on speeding it up? oh by the way, i have 20 up and they have 50 down.

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If you can't get good speed with remote SSH, perhaps remote access through ZeroTier is an option with SSH as if it were local. I have not used ZeroTier myself, but, judging from the responses in the thread users are happy with it. Not sure how the speed compares to SSH. I have no idea if starting ZeroTier an establishing a connection can be automated.

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I finally moved the Freenas out of the house to my folks house. It worked no problem, just gave the machine a static IP and forwarded the port. The problem is, it is very slow, getting only 1.25 mb/s so a 3.2gb Windows ISO takes about 45 minutes. Any tips on speeding it up? oh by the way, i have 20 up and they have 50 down.

Thanks for all the help with this!

if you have 1.2 MB/s uploading to your folks, you are already using ~12mbps of your 20mbps so it might be normal as internet overheads and other stuff can clog your pipes. It can be better, as I can do about 2.2MB/s given the same situation 20up/50down on the other end.

In my case, The whole connection is wrapped in something similar to Zerotier - a pair of Mikrotik routers running Ethernet over IP with IPSEC to do site to site VPN.

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Hard for me to say as my backup server is still in the basement. I keep threatening to move it to my son's house, but, other projects have taken priority. @tr0910 could certainly chime in on this as he is backing up between China and the US.

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Well, obviously, there is no rsync GUI in unRAID. The best you can hope to accomplish by following the instructions in this thread is to learn how to write rsync/SSH scripts that automate your backups and, if desired, emails you the results.

There is a steep learning curve if your are not already familiar with rsync and SSH, but, once you get this working, it really is a set-it-and-forget it solution. For me the script has been running unattended for months (automated as a cron via the User Scripts unRAID plugin) and, every week, I receive a summary email that gives me the important stats for each share (some do it by disk) I have designated to be backed up to the "remote" server.

If you want a GUI for configuring and monitoring your backups, you should look into something like Syncthing or Resilio Sync. There are dockers for both available in Community Applications.

The advantage to the rsync/SSH method is that the backup server does not have to be running/awake. My script powers on the backup server via IPMI and shuts it down after the backup completes. Other just wake or S3 sleep the backup server after completing the backup. The dockers won't give you this ability, but, you can do just that part of it in a script and once the backup server is online, the docker-based backups should start doing their thing.